Google has concetrated on getting website owners and markters to enhance mobile site experiences over the last couple of years. At the Mobile World Congress recently held in Barcelona, they announced the release of two new mobile benchmarking resources for assisting in the effort. They are a conversion Impact Calculator and a new Mobile Scoreboard.

Both these tools aim to offer marketers clear visuals to assist them to get buy-in from stakeholders for investing in mobile site speed. The Mobile Scorecard tracks data of Chrome User Exoperience for comparing speed of numerous sites on mobile. This is the same database of latency data from Chrome users which Google strated to use in its PageSpeed Insights Tool since January. Google has stated that Mobile Scoreboard can report on numerous websites from 12 countries.

Google has rolled out a new design for the Keyword Planner tool. This tool seems to be migrating to the new interface of Google AdWords. The tool looks more presentable and now matches the new AdWords interface which was launched recently. The tool now has a streamlined design and will enable advertisers to take make the best use of updated features to look for new keyword ideas and acquire keyword statistics and forecasts for campaigns on search network.

Google has done away with View Image button and Search by Image feature while viewing a specific image within Google Image Search. They announced about this change on Twitter, tweeting that they are launching some changes on Google Images to assist in connecting users with useful website. This will include removing of View Image button. The Visit button will remain to enable users to view images related to the web pages they are visiting.

The View Image button offered bots an easy way to pull images from all over the internet and utilize it for wicked purposes. As a result when users clicked on any image from a site, they cannot view the ads of the site or have the scope to engage with the content surroundingthat picture.

July is going to be a notable month for Google. Earlier this month, Google announced that its Speed Update will be launched in July. It announced yesterday that it will mark all sites which haven’t migrated to HTTPS as “not secure”. This event will coincide with Chrome 68’s release. The latter will look like this in a user’s browser.

In an attempt to enhance the search experience of travelers, Google had added the ability to book hotels to its search results. This update comes a week after Google launched delay predictions and cheaper fair to improve the flight booking experience. Apart from helping people booking hotels directly on Google, hotel searchers will also enable them to filter prices and find the information they are looking for.